# Metal Slug XX: recompiling the game with ReXGlue

> A modified ReXGlue SDK tree for running Metal Slug XX. The README says the repository stores no Metal Slug XX files and that a legal copy has to be supplied. It also marks the project as early development, with breaking public API changes expected.

- Type: Case study
- Targets: Game
- Category: Independent reconstruction cases
- Relationship: Independent reconstruction project
- Sources reviewed: 2026-11-07
- Added to the catalog: 2026-11-09
- Original resource: <https://github.com/FluffyQuack/rexglue-MetalSlugXX>
- Primary source: <https://github.com/FluffyQuack/rexglue-MetalSlugXX/blob/bb11ea63595c9af62cb97feb1ef330ba05d32c92/README.md>
- Catalog page: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/metal-slug-xx-recomp/>
- Record JSON: <https://awesomerea.org/resources/metal-slug-xx-recomp/record.json>
- Chinese version: [简体中文](https://awesomerea.org/zh/resources/metal-slug-xx-recomp/index.md)

## Requirements & limits

- **Prerequisites:** A legal copy of Metal Slug XX is required. The README says no files from the game are stored in the repository.
- **Prerequisites:** The README's build cheat sheet uses Visual Studio 2022, the CMake preset win-amd64-relwithdebinfo, the metalslugxx_codegen target, and a local recompile of default.xex.
- **Limits:** The README marks the project as early development and expects significant changes and breaking public API updates.

## Primary sources

1. <https://github.com/FluffyQuack/rexglue-MetalSlugXX/blob/bb11ea63595c9af62cb97feb1ef330ba05d32c92/README.md>

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